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Denmarks Premiere Power Metal Band Manticora! |
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| Location: | Copenhagen, All |
| Country: |  Denmark |
| Last Login: | May 28, 2008 (557 days back) |
About Me |
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| MANTICORA was formed in 1997 by Lars Larsen (vocals), Kristian Larsen (guitars) and Mads Volf (drums) – these three have made up the core of the band ever since. In the early days the band was a foursome with bass player Rene as the last member. Soon after the band recorded the now legendary mini CD “Dead End Solution”, which marked the beginning of the MANTICORA-trademark sound; hard hitting power metal with both epic and thrash elements.In 1998 MANTICORA signed with Intromental Management and shortly afterwards their first record deal was signed with Greek record label Black Lotus. The same year the band added an extra guitarist, Flemming, and a keyboardist, Jeppe, to the line-up. The debut full-length disc, “Roots Of Eternity”, was released in summer 1999, and received tremendously good response from both media and fans around the world.2000 saw the band signing with the Italian record label Scarlet Records, and half a year later the next opus, the somewhat more melodic album, “Darkness With Tales To Tell”, was released, and once again receiving great acclaim.In 2001 bassist Rene decided to leave the band to focus on his family. Kasper Gram was enrolled in the band as new bass player, and his young energy kicked the band into even higher gear. Along with the change of bassist came also the change of guitarist, as Flemming left MANTICORA and Martin Arendal joined the band.In 2002 the band played a brilliant gig at the Sweden Rock Festival to a large screaming and headbanging audience. In the fall 2002 “Hyperion” was released. This was the so-far most wide-spanning work of the band; an epic concept album, based on the award winning sci-fi novel “The Hyperion Cantos” by Dan Simmons. The album was whole-heartedly embraced by fans and media worldwide, and with a European tour in spring 2003 (with label mates Platitude as support band) MANTICORA took another step up the ladder.In early 2004 the band began work on their next disc, “8 Deadly Sins”, yet another conceptual disc. The album was recorded in March/April 2004 in Jailhouse Studios with producer Tommy Hansen (Helloween, Pretty Maids, HateSphere, TNT etc.).In early 2005 the band toured throughout Europe together with Angra and Edenbridge. The tour was a great success for the band and they made a lot of new fans and friends there. Joining the core of Lars, Mads, Kasper and Kristian was session-guitarist Stefan Johansson and Swedish keyboardist Andreas Lindahl. The band then did their first ever (highly successful) US appareance at the ProgPower Festival in Atlanta, GA (September 2005).With Martin Arendal (guitars) returning to the fold instead of Stefan, the band once again went into studio, to record it’s 5th full-length album, the first part of the 2-album concept “The Black Circus”. Lyrically it deals with the horror story of a travelling circus in 19th century New England. The lyrics are written as letters from the main person in the story to another person. Once again produced by Tommy Hansen, the album is bigger, better and more adventurous than ever before.After a mini-European tour, alongside Andromeda, Manticora hit Jailhouse Studio to finalize the 2nd part of “The Black Circus”. At this time, a permanent keyboarder was enrolled. Ronni Clasen is his name and he is a local Copenhagen guy with immense talent. With “The Black Circus Part 2” you get exactly what you could expect – a band evolving and fine-tuning all their best assets, be it the power metal side of their sound, or the dark/progressive mind. MANTICORA has never sounded better!
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Music:Member Since: 11/29/2005Band Website: manticora.dk Band Members: Kristian - Guitar Lars - Vocals Mads - Drums Kasper - Bass Martin - Guitar Ronni - Keyboards Influences: Iced Earth, Savatage, Blind Guardian, Metallica Sounds Like: Sounds like a Mix of American Thrash/Power Metal and European Power metal Record Label: Locomotive - Worldwide Type of Label: Indie |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Metal / Thrash / Progressive) |
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My Blog |
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Final blog from the EU tour |
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| May 10th Montpellier
On this day, we woke up at the entrance of "Secret Place Tout Fond". In was in the middle of an industrial neighbourhood and it really didn't look very promising from the o... Posted by Manticora on Fri, 16 May 2008 04:36:00 PST |
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Latest blog from the EU tour |
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| April 30th Day off
We spend the whole day traveling from Vienna to Z7, Pratteln. We had a four our rest at a highway parkinglot and got a little drunk&again!!
May 1st - Pratteln
Z7, Prattl... Posted by Manticora on Thu, 08 May 2008 02:54:00 PST |
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Eu tour blog - Part one |
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| Copenhagen april 26th: It was finally time for Manticora to go on EU tour again. The Mountain King had been kind enough to let us in on the tour and we began the tour on our home turf The Rock... Posted by Manticora on Thu, 01 May 2008 04:01:00 PST |
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New Manticora website! |
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| Dear fans and friends!
Soon our new website will be launched. We're really looking forward to this, since the outcome is excellent! The new website will be a new step for us in the right dir... Posted by Manticora on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:59:00 PST |
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Join our street team!! |
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| We've launched a new Street team site!!
We've created a new fan site for all our biggest fans, In order to be able to reward the ones who do work for us. ....Work we can't live without and work that m... Posted by Manticora on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:02:00 PST |
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Manticora on North American tour with Jon Oliva’s Pain! |
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| After the cancellation of the north America spring tour, we are now ready and proud to announce that we will go on tour in America in the fall of 2008 with Jon Oliva's Pain and Circle II Circle in ste... Posted by Manticora on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:47:00 PST |
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MANTICORA ON EUROPEAN TOUR! |
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| Hi Manticora lovers and friends in general.
After the sad announcement about the US/Canada tour, our management has been working their a**es off and have landed us another tour!
So, we ... Posted by Manticora on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:18:00 PST |
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USA and Canada tour cancelled |
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| Hey all,
due to the very unfortunate cancellation of our first north American tour, which was to take place in February/March 2008, we have chosen to look ahead and not cry over spilled milk. A... Posted by Manticora on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:43:00 PST |
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The USA tour!! |
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Finally the long awaited tour in North America is beginning to take shape. This is really a big event for us and we are all looking forward to this.
The show dates are comming one by one and we lov... Posted by Manticora on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:11:00 PST |
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MANTICORA on tour w. KING DIAMOND!!! |
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| Manticora are very proud to announce that well be one of the official support band on the up-coming European King Diamond tour that will run from October through December 2007. Manticora will take pa... Posted by Manticora on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 01:23:00 PST |
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My Friends |
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